The PowerShell Pipeline One of the defining features of PowerShell is the object-oriented pipeline.  The ability to “wire-up” parameters to the pipeline and allow objects (or properties) to be automatically assigned to them allows us to write code that is often variable-free. By “variable-free”, I mean that instead of doing something like this: we can …

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It has been said that you can write BASIC code in any language. When I look at PowerShell code, I tend to see a lot of code that looks like transplanted C# code. It’s easy to get confused sometimes, since C# and PowerShell syntax are similar, and when you are dealing with .NET framework objects …

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